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porches

n. (plural of porch English)

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Porches

Porches may refer to:

  • Porches (Lagoa), a civil parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Lagoa, Algarve, Portugal
  • Porches Pottery (Olaria Algarve), producer of hand-painted pottery
  • Porches (band), an American synthpop project of New York-based musician Aaron Maine
Porches (Lagoa)

Porches is a civil parish/ freguesia in the municipality of Lagoa in Portugal, about 10 km east of the city of Lagoa. The population in 2011 was 2,011, in an area of 15.64 km². It was elevated to the status of a town on July 12, 2001.

Porches (band)

Porches (formerly stylized as PORCHES.) is an American synthpop project of New York-based musician Aaron Maine, formed in Pleasantville, New York in 2010. Maine's girlfriend, Greta Kline, who produces music as Frankie Cosmos, is a frequent collaborator with Porches' music.

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A lump rose in his throat suddenly as he saw the big proud houses of the avenue gliding past, with their deep porches and colonnettes and gaily painted shutters, and the pastel sky enmeshed in a tangle of groping branches and softly fluttering leaves.

As we drew nearer, I saw that every window was open to the porches both above and below, and I could see the chandeliers and the fine furnishings, and other bits of color gleaming in the dark.

And here and there near the railings, the wood of the porches was rotted right through.

He shared it instead with the houses and the trees he loved, marveling at the spectacle of the snow-trimmed porches and cast-iron railings.

He didn't want to see up close the garden gone to seed, chinaberry and oleander struggling with grass as high as wheat, and the porches stripped of paint, turning that dull gray that old untended wood turns in the damp climate of Louisiana.

You used to see them on the front porches, wearing their straw hats, watching the traffic pass.

And the wind had come up, sweeping through the pecan trees so that their high branches crashed against the porches of the convent.

Lionel shot Stella in the head, and everybody in the house went just plain wild, breaking out the windows to the porches to get out of there.

I came in with Daddy and there Miss Carl was in that double parlor with no lights on and it being so dark in there with the porches and the trees and all, and there she was just sitting there, rocking little Deirdre in the cradle beside her.

It had porches on the front and on the sides, real New Orleans porches.

All the way down past those iron porches she had fallen – all the way down to the flags, before her cranium cracked on the flags, and the soft tissue of the brain was crushed, the blood oozing out of it.

And in the old days those porches were the hallways by which the servants came and went.

I'd keep the whole scheme, actually – blue for the roofs of the porches, and gray for the porch floors, and black for the cast iron.

It had a distinctive Victorian style, with two high gabled roofs in the front, a turret that ran up four levels, and wide covered porches that swept around the house on both sides.

Next door and across the street the porches and yards were filled with people.